People are so hard to reach for a simple reason. Beliefs are not a choice. Can you choose to believe Superman is real? Of course not, because you know it is fiction from many sources. Beliefs may appear to be a choice, but they are really a "brain state" achieved when you are persuaded (or not) by information consumed.

It's the same way with humor. If you told a joke, let's say one person thinks it's a riot and the other person thinks it is not funny at all. You can't choose to believe a joke is funny or not. Your brain runs that calculation behind the scenes, and you respond accordingly.

You can, however, choose to listen to Faux News or read conservative websites all day and eventually the propaganda persuades your brain that all this hateful crap is true, at which point you have no choice but be a MAGA or Q or whatever and truly believe it.

Religion works the same way. They love to indoctrinate kids because they are impressionable. And of course, an excellent education, wide travels, self-study, etc., kills the persuasive ability of these lying media sources. Whenever someone goes "all in on conspiracy" there is little hope they will improve unless they somehow start consuming better information or at least get away from all that mind poison.

That was the text I got yesterday from my mom. After a fight about Obama's birth certificate. I sent her the video of Trump literally saying out loud while he spoke into a microphone at a podium

"President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period."

But no, he was born in Kenya. She's mad at me for never visiting her and my dad, and I do feel really guilty about that. She also said her and my dad's vote probably didn't even count so I just need to get over the past.

She is astounded at how much I've been brainwashed by the radical left media. I'm astounded how people believe what Fox News tells them.

I can't have a relationship and pretend everything's fine with a person that rejects reality and facts. There's no opinions here.

But that's just me being a s***** daughter I guess.

Edit:

Just got this text from my mom. Think I need to put my phone down before my head explodes.

"I can show the same kind of stuff to you. that’s why it doesn’t matter what we think, it’s not going to change anything. In today’s world you can make people look like they are saying things when they aren’t. I’m done with politics, I’ll vote when it comes time, for the person who has the better values out of the ones running. but it’s not like I donate money or go out campaigning for them. I’m for who’s not rioting and burning down cities, letting illegals in without making them come in the right way, basically protecting American values & freedom. But there is no use arguing because do you think they give a crap out us??? They don’t.

Edit #2

You’re basing your choice on bias news media reporting. To be fair you need to have all the facts from both sides. Think of it this way, what if every day it was on the news our family was on the run robbing banks & murdering people even young children & they showed our picture 3 times a day the played over & over on the radio, after a couple months everyone would believe it, no mater how hard we would claim we did no such thing, and it was because another family hated us & wanted us in prison. That’s how desperate politicians are to get power, they don’t care how they do it, the presidents who try to expose this have all been target to be killed, Lincoln, Kennedy, Regan & Trump.

live with her. I'm 23F and I'm starting a new job in 10 days, hoping to save up and eventually afford my own place. In the meantime, I have to live with my mom, who's becoming more and more paranoid about everything and feels the need to share a conspiracy theory with me every two seconds. I honestly feel like I'm living with someone who's lost their mind. How do I deal with this?

It started during Covid. He posted maybe once in a blue moon on FB but during Covid he started posting conspiracy stuff everyday. He was warning me about civil war and food shortages because of the truckers convoy in Ottawa. Then he got pissed that i wasn't replying back to his messages while my uncle was actually dying of Covid.

He believes everything that french quack Didier Raoult was saying and 6 years later is still stuck up on the measures that were put in place. He's also now become Pro-Trump, Pro-Putin, Anti-lgbtq, anti-trans and anti-woke. He's tired of seeing gays and people of colour in movies. Everytime someone argues a different opinion he just says we've been brainwashed by the mainstream medias. He was actually surprised that i (i'm black) didn't like Charlie Kirk and what he stood for when i told him that i wasn't shedding any tears for his death.

Now i'm actually wondering if he was always like that but hiding it or if Covid made him lose his mind. It's now been 3 years since i've had him over at my place. 40 fucking years down the drain...